Science & Tech

Science & Tech

Explore the discoveries that reveal how the world works, alongside the technologies that extend, reshape, and sometimes challenge what’s possible.

Two men holding hands on a grassy cliff.
Men with one older brother are 12% more likely to enter a same-sex union than those with a sister.
symmetric
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
The Kardashev scale ranks civilizations from Type 1 to Type 3 based on energy harvesting.
painkillers
Painkillers have nasty side effects, such as organ damage or addiction. Researchers have discovered a new drug that may cause none of these.
Extreme North
After it became clear that the world wasn't 6,000 years old, some proposed that northern peoples had emerged independently from others.
James Webb Space Telescope
Once science operations begin for James Webb, we'll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here's what everyone should know.
microdosing psilocybin
Ingesting tiny doses of hallucinogens might not have the outsized benefits that some people claim it does.
A frog swimming.
Scientists looked for ways to trigger the “build whatever normally was here” signal for cells at the site of a wound.
On-demand learning
On-demand learning has become the cornerstone of a modern L&D strategy. Here's why.
gritter
To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?
crossword puzzles
Long before the Wordle mania, there was the crossword puzzle craze. And newspapers around the world condemned them as an “invasive weed” that caused mental illnesses and even murder.
Hopewell mound
A study proposes that an ancient trading network, called the Hopewell tradition, may have been wiped out by what is known as a cosmic airburst.
With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.
quadratic formula
The quadratic formula isn't just something that teachers use to torture algebra students. The Babylonians once used it to calculate taxes.
poisson distribution
The Poisson distribution has everyday applications in science, finance, and insurance. To compare the results of some biomedical studies, more people ought to be familiar with it.
greatest ideas in science
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
A luge athlete at the Olympics.
The big-picture physics is simple – let gravity do its job.
strength
Get stronger in only three seconds per day? New research shows that it is possible.
5g airplanes
In general, 5G is not a threat to human health or activities, but there are some legitimate questions about interference with airplane instruments.
space expanding
Yes, the Universe is expanding, but you might wonder, "How fast is it expanding?"